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gaigalas 2 days ago

It originally meant nothing. Bitcoin was a proof of concept, with some examples of things it could solve, but no actual ideological arc.

Some people saw it as an opportunity to push for an ideological agenda because you can convince a lot of people that cryptocurrency is a silver bullet (it's not).

nailer 2 days ago | parent [-]

> but no actual ideological arc.

Wasn’t the first thing signed an article about the collapse of the banking system?

gaigalas 2 days ago | parent [-]

This is the first thing:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It has nothing about the collapse of the banking system.

kayamon 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

nailer a day ago | parent | prev [-]

https://grokipedia.com/page/History_of_bitcoin#genesis-block...